Kerela Elections

With Election Commission questioning its decision on free rice distribution to Below Poverty Line families and supply of drinking water in poll-bound Kerala, the state government today said it would not hesitate to take legal recourse if permission was denied for the schemes.

Election authorities in the five poll-bound states have so far seized over Rs 11 crore 'illegal cash', with the maximum of Rs 7.44 crore being recovered in Tamil Nadu.

It was a mixed response from Kerela on Friday to the apex court's verdict on voter's right to negative voting.

Reporter of a Malayalam TV channel was roughed up allegedly by CPI(M) sympathisers during an 'open air' election talk show here, police said on Tuesday.   "Asianet News" channel, whose regional bureau chief Shajahan was manhandled, alleged that the attack was carried out by a group led by CPI(M) MLA P Jayarajan, apparently irked by some s...

K.J. Alphons, a legislator and former bureaucrat who earned the sobriquet of 'demolition man' as Delhi civic chief, has decided not to contest the upcoming Kerala assembly polls.Alphons, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) lawmaker, said the decision not to contest is not influenced by the party's move not to field Kerala Chief Minister V.S....

With Election Commission questioning its decision on free rice distribution to Below Poverty Line families and supply of drinking water in poll-bound Kerala, the state government today said it would not hesitate to take legal recourse if permission was denied for the schemes.

Election authorities in the five poll-bound states have so far seized over Rs 11 crore 'illegal cash', with the maximum of Rs 7.44 crore being recovered in Tamil Nadu.

It was a mixed response from Kerela on Friday to the apex court's verdict on voter's right to negative voting.

Reporter of a Malayalam TV channel was roughed up allegedly by CPI(M) sympathisers during an 'open air' election talk show here, police said on Tuesday.   "Asianet News" channel, whose regional bureau chief Shajahan was manhandled, alleged that the attack was carried out by a group led by CPI(M) MLA P Jayarajan, apparently irked by some s...

K.J. Alphons, a legislator and former bureaucrat who earned the sobriquet of 'demolition man' as Delhi civic chief, has decided not to contest the upcoming Kerala assembly polls.Alphons, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) lawmaker, said the decision not to contest is not influenced by the party's move not to field Kerala Chief Minister V.S....